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Juneteenth: a celebration amid deep concerns
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoWhen Union Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston on June 19, 1865, to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation would be enforced in Texas, as in the...
Today in History
The Martinsburg Journal· 2 days agoToday is Saturday, June 22, the 174th day of 2024. There are 192 days left in the year. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated," he said. The Civil Rights Act was...
'The heart of Austin beats here': Juneteenth, visit city's only intact slave quarters
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAs the interpretive panels make clear, only with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965...
Today in History: June 22, Hitler and the Nazis invade the Soviet Union - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoToday is Saturday, June 22, the 174th day of 2024. There are 192 days left in the year.
As Black churches see emptier pews, Democrats may lose a key turnout weapon
The Christian Science Monitor· 3 days agoFor weeks, the Rev. Leon Morehead had been encouraging his flock to attend the Lift Every Voice and ...
100 years of citizenship: Tribal advocates urge more Native voter participation
Tulsa World· 7 days agoThis year is the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, yet tribal leaders and advocates...
Legislation would protect surfers, swimmers from dangerous bacteria found at beaches | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via AOL· 15 hours agoIn 1945...for everyone, but Republicans killed the idea. In 1965, President Lyndon B....
Hammond praises local NAACP at Juneteenth celebration
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 4 days agoWith all that has happened in race relations in this country, work remains. That includes developing...
Statehouse Beat: GOP today unrecognizable from a mere 50 years ago
The Charleston Gazette· 2 days agoPrice was an architect of and a leading advocate for Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan, which essentially would have replaced welfare with a guaranteed minimum income program ...